January 2011
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We are so used to releasing words, we don’t know what to do with them if they...
– David Levithan. “The Realm Of Possibility” (via bookishbeezus)
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She wrote a novel in her head. It was the same sentence on every page: I already...
– The Late Work of Margaret Kroftis, Mark Gluth (via itookadeepbreath)
may my heart always be open to little
birds who are the secrets of living...
– E.E. Cummings (via liquidnight)
I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s...
– Haruki Murakami (via crashinglybeautiful)
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lonelinessandthescream:
// rocky votolato - sparklers.
a picture of our life. can we make this how it was? everything is right, everything’s wrong sparklers only burn for so long.
The Meaning of Existence
crashinglybeautiful:
Everything except language knows the meaning of existence. Trees, planets, rivers, time know nothing else. They express it moment by moment as the universe. Even this fool of a body lives it in part, and would have full dignity within it but for the ignorant freedom of my talking mind.
- Les Murray
From Whiskey River
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"One is loved because one is loved. No reason is...
melancholynotes:
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
… no reason is needed.
A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.
– Helen Keller (via nathanielstuart)
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When the heart is full you should not grudgingly and loftily, short-changing the...
– Soren Kierkegaard, Works of Love
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The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor. It is the one thing...
– From Aristotle’s De Poetica. via Lapidarium (via viafrank)
An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good...
– The History of Love, Nicole Krauss. (via tenementhalls)
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No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state...
– Bernard Baruch (via ecologyfreedomdreams)
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Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must live.
– Charles Bukowski (via chadsugg)